LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 231, 1 September 1883, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

O - The Palmerston agency of the South British Insurance Company has been transferred to the Wellington district. We are sorry to hear that Mr 0. Trickle. bank is laid up, suffering . from the effects of a severe accident by which several ribs were broken. He is being attended by Dr. [ Harvey. We learn that Mr Graff has been ap« pointed agent for the Bankruptcy and Bills of Sale Gazette m Palmerston. It is strange some person does not go: systematically into the chaff business m Palmerston. To»day there was not a bag to be had m town for love or money. The demand m Woodville direction is also very active. We learn that at a meeting of the late Ohoral Society, _9ld last nighi, it was fpu-fl thatjla' financial deficiency exists, which the late members will have to make up among themselves. This is a rather unfortunate consummation. Plants that are of slow growth contain less moisture, when m a living state, than do those whose growths are rapid. A mahogany tree requires 500 years m which to mature, and as a consequence its texture is exceedingly dense. Being dense m texture, it requires a long time m which to season, and during that lengthened period it shrinks very little. At a meeting of propria tors of the Union Bank of Australia, Limited, held m Lon« don on the 30th July, a dividend of £1 15s, and a bonus of 10s per share together equal to 18 per cent, per annum was declared. The Reserve Funds wereihcreased' by £30,000, makiue them £910,000 and a sum of £23,000 was carried for Tar d. The New Zealand Refrigerating Com* pany received a cablegram from London, dated 26th, stating that the Fenstanton's careo netted £12,600, an|| average of 6£d per lb; This company have sent away more than 40,800 sheep this, year; but {growers of sheep state that up to the pre-, .sent this export has not' affected the local market prices. The shippers make large ! profits, bat the small farmers hitherto ,have received no benefit. The bodies of persons who have com •• mitted suicide are banded over to the anatomical department of the Berlin University. The students there require from 25 to 30 bodies a week during the winter term of 20 weeks. In this manner 600 bodies were disposed of last year. Public hospitals transfer ail their unclaimed dead to the institution referred to, and persons ki.Hed by accident and not identified and claimed are likewise turned over to the medical students. Speaking of snow to the|north of Auckland, a thing almost unknown to the oldest Inhabitant, the Waikato Times re?, marks :— The climate of this part of the, words seems . to. be undergoing, a radical change of late years,, such a thing aa a heavy snow fall being unknown m days gone by. The natives say the snow presages a fruitful year. The Wainuiomata water scheme, so far .as the Wellington City. Council is concerned, may now be regarded as an accomplished fact. Not the slightest difficulty presents itself m the way of the water being turned on at any moment, although the reservoir is not yet completed. The inaugural and official proceedings m connection with the opening of the works will probably be celebrated m October next.